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- @(#) BLURB 1.4 91/10/02 23:02:02
-
- This package provides a couple of tiny programs that log requests for
- internet services (examples: TFTP, EXEC, FTP, RSH, TELNET, RLOGIN,
- FINGER, SYSTAT). Optional features are: access control based on pattern
- matching, and protection against rsh and rlogin attacks from hosts that
- pretend to have someone elses host name.
-
- The programs are nothing but small network daemon front ends. By
- default, they just log the remote host name and then invoke the real
- network daemon daemon, without requiring any changes to existing
- software or configuration files.
-
- Connections are reported through the syslog(3) facility. Each record
- contains a time stamp, the remote host name and the name of the service
- requested. The information can be useful to detect unwanted activities,
- especially when logfile information from several hosts is merged.
-
- Enhancements over the previous release are: support for datagram (UDP
- and RPC) services, and execution of shell commands when a (remote host,
- requested service) pair matches a pattern in the access control tables.
-
- Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl),
- Eindhoven University of Technology,
- The Netherlands.
-